Okay not as big of a deal as I made it sound there, but has anybody noticed something strange about the elevator in the Normandy?  Something like the fact that it either has the ability to grow a door or rotate?  This has been bothering me, as a person who is bothered by stupid shit, every floor besides the Crew's Quarters the elevator doors open facing the bow of the ship and while on the Crew's Quarters it opens facing aft.  A simple look at the power core from any level on the ship is my basis for direction.  Also notice it isn't simply a back set of doors opening like the original Normandy had, if you look inside the elevator there is a single set of doors.  
 
Just wanted to ruin the game for everybody else too. :P

You have trouble thinking of a rotating elevator but not people using magic?
 
 EDIT: Just looked at the blue prints during the elevator ride and it doesn't rotate or have magic doors, the crew deck itself is rotated backwards extending into the back of the ship and not forward like all the other levels.

yeah that was what all my faith in that game hinged on! its ruined for me now. The fact that I run into multiple people I saw in the first game on every planet/space station wasn't stranger than your elevator theory :P i may not play ME3 now!

Elevators can have more than one door you know :P

It's the future. It rotates. Have fun.

...the elevator has two doors. The Normandy in ME1 had that also...

Well first of all, the actual door openings are a part of each floor level. The elevator controls are a holographic projection that can appear on either side. What you're staring at on the bottom level could either be a solid wall on the other side of the elevator shaft or an interior door that closes off that section on that level.
 
Besides that, there are a lot of other more unbelievable things about the Normandy that would break immersion with me, but I tend not to think about them.

wow seriouisly? 

"The ship is based on M.C. Esher designs. "

Spoilers!

Glad to see everyone glossed over my explanation.

It could be that the elevator itself doesn't have a door or wall on the other side of the door but instead the level you're on has the door.

It's obvious that elevators in Mass Effect are Reaper tech and are designed to break the fabric of space and time like nobody's business.

" It's obvious that elevators in Mass Effect are Reaper tech and are designed to break the fabric of space and time like nobody's business. "

"Well first of all, the actual door openings are a part of each floor level. The elevator controls are a holographic projection that can appear on either side. What you're staring at on the bottom level could either be a solid wall on the other side of the elevator shaft or an interior door that closes off that section on that level.  Besides that, there are a lot of other more unbelievable things about the Normandy that would break immersion with me, but I tend not to think about them. "

The elevator has a mass effect on it.
 
The mass effect does stuff.

You know the game is awesome when people are complaining about small nit-picks such as the elevator.

" @AndrewB said:

"Well first of all, the actual door openings are a part of each floor level. The elevator controls are a holographic projection that can appear on either side. What you're staring at on the bottom level could either be a solid wall on the other side of the elevator shaft or an interior door that closes off that section on that level.  Besides that, there are a lot of other more unbelievable things about the Normandy that would break immersion with me, but I tend not to think about them. "

I went back read your post.  I must have missed it because we posted at the same time.  This makes a lot of sense.  I am willing to accept this.  Actually I want to thank you because I am the sort of person who will let this sort of thing drive myself crazy. "

Since we're talking about strange paranormal occurrences on the ship, someone explain to me the shadow next to the elevator on the third floor of the ship.  It's a humanoid shadow, but nothing should be making it.  The ghost of Navigator Pressly perhaps?

DUDE it has 2 doors! It's the same as Mass Effect 1, the elevator has entrances on either side. Albeit, not on the same floor but still.

these elevators are going to be the END OF US

Huh. Never noticed, guess it was because it isn't really worth shit caring about?

I blame the war economy.

" Glad to see everyone glossed over my explanation. "

Gamebreaking, clearly.  
 
I hate the word "utterly".